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On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:43:33AM -0400, Jeff Lange wrote:
>/dev/zero does work properly.  I changed line 68 in /etc/profile to
>use /dev/zero instead of /dev/null and I no longer get the bash error
>on start up.
>
>Perhaps the cygwin libraries should be modified so that if the windows
>NUL device doesn't exist, it should use a different method.

Sorry, no.  We already have enough special cases in the code.  We're not
going to start adding more for XP Embedded.

cgf

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